News: 10 March 2017BerlinPierre
Boulez Concert Hall Opens in BerlinDesigned by Frank Gehry, the
new concert hall has seating for 700 and offers a range of possibilities
with its elliptical shape and flexible stage design.

Festival Review: 27 October 2016Gstaad, Switzerland2016 Gstaad
Menuhin FestivalOn the centenary of its founder's birth,
this year's Gstaad Menuhin Festival continued to grow from its modest
beginnings into an extravaganza that saw 26,000 visitors enjoying 75
different events.

Interview: 20 July 2016ParisPascal Amoyel on 'The Day I
Met Franz Liszt'Hybridizing the concert hall
experience with an evening at the theatre, Amoyel creates an entirely new
performance category, to the delight of his fortunate fans.

Interview: 15 March 2016ParisDouglas
BoydScotsman Douglas Boyd reinvigorates the Orchestre de
Chambre de Paris after years of mediocrity.

Review: 15 January 2016ParisMarc Chagall - The
Triumph of MusicArtworks, concerts, and audiovisual
elements - developed by the Institut Culturel Google in Paris -
document Chagall's passion for music.

Interview: 3 December 2014ParisA Conversation With Ivo
PogorelichPoised to tour Asia with a recital programme of
works by Liszt, Schumann, Stravinsky and Brahms, Croatian piano virtuoso
Ivo Pogorelich takes time to talk with Culturekiosque in Paris.

Comment: 6 March 2014ParisMarie
NDiayeBased in Berlin, where she wrote the text, French
novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye comments on her libretto for Hèctor
Parra's new opera.News: 18 February 2014New YorkCharles
Ives's Connecticut Studio Recreated in New York
CityLeonard Bernstein called the American composer
Charles Ives, "Our first really great composer...our Washington, Lincoln,
and Jefferson of music."

Seen and Heard: 6 October 2013Saint-Bris-des-Bois, France
20th Festival de
L'Abbaye de FontdouceIn 1970, the Boutinet family
restored their ancestral property which had been badly damaged after the
wars of religion in the 15th century and practically destroyed during the
bloodbath of the French revolution.

CD Tip: 11 April 2013New YorkMilos:
PasiónThe 29-year-old Serbian guitarist brings plenty of
technique and personal charm to this seductive collection from the Latin
American repertoire.

Concert: 19 March 2013Basel, SwitzerlandLast Chance ! Songs
for a Mad KingMathieu Kleyebe Abonnencs controversial
exhibition at the Kunsthalle in Basel pays homage to the neglected music
and provocative personality of the American musician, singer, and composer
Julius Eastman (1940  1990).

Editor's Pick: 18 December 2012LisbonNew Year's Eve Te
Deum in LisbonIf Srauss waltzes in gilded concert
halls, or massive crowds roaming and shouting about public squares are not
your idea of how to bring in the New Year, the sung Te Deum at
the Igreja de São Roque in Lisbon might be an alternative well worth
considering.

Editor's Pick: 26 December 2011LisbonNew Year's Eve Te Deum
in LisbonIf massive crowds roaming and shouting about
public squares is not your idea of how to bring in the New Year, the sung
Te Deum at the Igreja de São Roque in Lisbon might be an
alternative well worth considering.

Festival Review: 30 September 2011Sceaux, FranceFestival de
SceauxIn the 17th century French atmosphere of its
exceptionally beautiful surroundings, the Festival de Sceaux attracts
locals, Parisians and international tourists in the know.

Interview: 2 August 2011ParisInterview: Ildebrando
d'ArcangeloDescribed as "the hottest thing in Opera these
days", Italian bass-baritone Ildebrando d'Arcangelo talks about Italian
politics, his favourite foods and his new CD, "Mozart" to be released in
September.

News: 14 November 2010LondonHenryk Mikolaj Górecki 1933 
2010As a result of Poland's increasing political emancipation in
the late 1980s, Górecki's music travelled more widely and attracted new
performers and audiences in the West.

Editor's Pick: 7 July 2010New YorkVarèse
(R)evolution at the Lincoln Center FestivalComplicated
to perform, the ingenious music of Edgard Varèse is always a risky affair
for a conductor, orchestra and soloists. New York takes up the challenge
of his complete works this summer.

News: 10 June 2010Leipzig, GermanyLeipzig Bach Medal Goes
to Philippe HerrewegheUncanny in his ability to produce
exceptional beauty and clarity in the choral music of Bach, the director
of the Collegium Vocale Gent remains one of the most important advocates
of the historically informed performance of European baroque music.

Seen: 27 January 2010New YorkXenakis and Japan: The
Inner Lives of GhostsXenakis considered the theatrical
form of Noh to be a supreme artistic achievement as well as emblematic of
his own vision in regard to musical drama.

Interview: 5 January 2010Bonifacio, CorsicaCorsican Melodies: Music from the
Beginning of TimeCorsica is more than the birthplace of
Napoleon Bonaparte, white sand beaches and a resilient nationalist
movement. It is also home to one of the oldest singing traditions in the
Mediterranean.

Christmas Books: 22 December 2009ParisSecret Lives of Great
Composers Just in time for the holidays, Joel Kasow reviews three
new books, providing a perfect set of options for those on your gift list
whom you regard highly, indifferently or hardly at all.

Travel Journal: 14 December 2009ViennaStrange
BedfellowsThe uneasy intersection of Tradition and Modernity is
made all the moreso in a city so invested in its imperial past. Alan Behr
recounts the good, the bad and the bewildering.

Concert Review: 6 November 2009ParisDudamel in Paris:
An Unforgettable DebutVenezuelan phenomenon Gustavo
Dudamel (along with more than 100 of his young countrymen and women) makes
his Paris debut, bringing a stunned and enraptured audience to its
feet.

Festival ReviewVerbier, SwitzerlandHow to Ruin a
Perfectly Good Music FestivalEach year, Switzerland's
Verbier Festival is less about serious music and more about serious
wealth, under-rehearsed "stars" and questionable artistic choices.
Luckily, some true gems can still be found amidst the glittery mountain of
zircons.

SeenBrusselsJudas Iscariot: Archetype
of a TraitorChristian Holy Week in Europe offers to
believers and agnostics alike a unique occasion to hear some of the
greatest masterworks of Western sacred music.

Interview Archives:
RomeLady Susana
WaltonThe wife of Sir William Walton talks to Paolo Petrocelli
about her life with the British composer, and their passion for their
island estate, La Mortella, off the coast of Naples, one of Europe's most
beautiful private gardens.

Interview
ArchivesParisChristoph
EschenbachWhat could have possibly possessed the
German-born conductor to take on the Orchestre de Paris, an ensemble known
for its individualistic players and capricious performance
standards ? Plus, a look at the new Salle Pleyel.

InterviewParisLang LangChinese piano
virtuoso Lang Lang talks about growing up in China and the western
classical musicians who most influenced his career.

Interview:St. MoritzCorey CerovsekFrom
the alpine ski resort of St. Mortiz, Canadian fiddler and mathematician
Corey Cerovsek talks to CK about playing the "Milanollo" Stradivarius of
1728.